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The map of Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and cartographer, Juan de la Cosa , and was likely created in 1500.
The Yellow World (Spanish: El Mundo Amarillo) is a semi-autobiographical work by Albert Espinosa. The book details the author's experience with cancer and describes his hospital experience. [ 1 ] Written as a series of twenty-three discoveries made by the author during his ten-year fight against cancer, [ 2 ] Espinosa describes the people he ...
Monument dedicated to Juan de la Cosa in Santoña, Cantabria.. No one knows exactly where Juan de la Cosa was born. Canovas del Castillo (1892) states that he was from Santoña, Cantabria, [3] because there are documents showing that he was a resident there and his wife and daughter lived in that city. [4]
The Kingdom of This World (Spanish: El reino de este mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957. A work of historical fiction , it tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint Louverture , as seen by its ...
The circulation of El Mundo rose in the 1990s. It was 209,992 copies in 1993; 268,748 copies in 1994 [23] 68,813 copies in 2020 [24] In 2001 El Mundo had a circulation of 291,000 copies [25] and it was 312,366 copies next year. [26] The paper had a circulation of 300,000 copies in 2003, making it the third best selling newspaper in the country ...
Publication of Thomas Piketty’s El capital en el siglo XXI. FCE has now available for sale a thousand different e-books and the iOS and Android app Archivo abierto: ochenta años del FCE is released. The Guillermo Tovar de Teresa bookstore opens in Mexico City and the José Emilio Pacheco bookstore is inaugurated in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, inside ...
The Comisión para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE – Commission for the Reform of the State) was a Presidential Commission created in 1984 by President Jaime Lusinchi to examine the reform of the Venezuelan state and political system.
According to the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia, the phrase is first documented in Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff (1494), in the form "Die weltt die will betrogen syn". [1]